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Robin Lemmen Jul 2018
We speak with fire on our tongue
Hoping to find a match in angry looks
Aiming to light up and respark
Hit where we know words hurt most
Lashing out and cashing in
I apologize for feelings for speaking truths
You are proud but  reach out
As a means of saying sorry
Ironic as we know we both
Will do it all again
Strike a match past the parchment
Of our skin, drawing fires
Drawing circles until we burn
Out, out, again and again
Smoldering embers of what could have been
Leaving marks shaped like feelings
Neither of us can make worth of

And so they kept on drawing fires
Past the parchment
Of their skins
Luke Martin Dec 2014
Hello.
I see you you got off, scott free.
You disrespectful swine.
You hateful trash.
You living filth.

Letting me swell with anger.
A violent flower, blooming with a blood dye.
You wouldn't be able to tell.
I have quite the poker face.
I'm so close to bursting.
You can watch if you'd like.
Watch my insides deteriorate.
Watch my lifeless arms come alive.
Only to grasp your washed out neck.

And to those who run the school.
Who let hate crimes happen.
Who think a slap on the wrist is acceptable.
You are to blame as well.

My love would rather side with those who hurt me.
She'd rather just let me burst.
She's not here to comfort me.
Only to respark my firestorm.

I'm so close
Kasaundra Watta Jul 2010
for some strange reason
i can feel my heart bleeding
for life, i am pleading
with death i am proceeding

this fake life that im leading
has got me asking for meaning
this isnt me, but its what im being

broken bridges between me and you
theres something i forgot to do
i forgot to make it up to you
after all the **** ive put you through

i still love you,baby  its true
in the end, all i need is you
and i know you still need me too
no matter what i'll always be here

i didn't mean to make you feel like you disappeared
i didnt mean to make our relationship queer
or to make you feel like you shouldn't be here
cause i want you to know, i love you my dear

please dont leave me alone in the dark
our love might be dead, but it can respark
our fire was huge, our ashes very stark
if you asked you to marry me, whats your remark

dont leave me standin here no  more
please please dont walk out that door
know our love hit bottom, but we can make it sore
when we split, my heart just tore

i promised you id make it up
i didnt mean to get mad and blow up
baby dont tell me twice, i know i ****** up
it didnt happen the way i set it up

well now imm put your finger through this ring
make the wedding singer sing
***, imma take you under my wing
cause now baby we're back on the upswing(:
Inspired by Jesse McNeil*
Devin Lawrence Aug 2016
The truth inside is a dying flame.
It flickers faintly
like an echo of days long ago
politely passing through.
Though warmth still radiates
and cradles the soul,
charred remains tell a story
of a fire that once burnt
so much brighter.

You may fuel the flame,
fan it, respark it,
or even start it over from scratch,
but nothing compares to that first encounter
that set the world and time ablaze
right before your eyes.

We gather around it
though faces and places
are ever changing;
the songs and spirits
dancing through the air
flirt with the familiar
and comfort this sense
of wasted time.

In every truth is a lie,
like light bound to a flame,
and you are powerless
as the story unfolds
and nature does as it does:
it keeps moving along.
Matei Codrescu Dec 2016
The sweet acid of love that pours when you depart
It wreaks a joyful havoc in the corners of my heart
Never have I witnessed such immense pains and pleasures
Then the ones I witness with you, my treasure.

This golden feeling of bliss, when you are around
I cannot fix to anything that people have found
But you stupefy with a sweet and warm fondness
And leave behind the wildest fire craving for a goddess.

The calamity hasn’t come until you have left
It softly creeps up the veins to commit the coldest theft
Leaving this fiery vessel floating on a frozen lake
Trying from his deepest reserves to not flake…
                                                 …and freeze.

But then I see, touch, hear and feel you close again
I rejoice in the most noble and pure sentiment, a refrain
So delightful even the coldest fires will respark, with a flame,
So bright, the darkest demons of the mind will blind, AND FOR ALL, I BLAME…
                                                                ­  …my Love for you.
I have never loved someone this strongly before. This is only a fragment of my love for her.
Rip Lazybones Mar 2014
I often think about once and for all leaving this bark
But society's rules won't let that in my story arc
Enough crying. Enough loneliness. Tired of being sad
Time to return to where there are adventures to be had
A place where things make sense
A place that will give me a mental rinse
The dream of love and farming left behind in the county
Respark the dream of those catching me for my bounty
That dream often ends at my knuckle
Their skull slamming sound is just another notch for my buckle
Being on land for me was emotional error
But meet me on the high seas and I can show you true terror
brandon nagley May 2015
This candle burneth down low,
Who shall respark it for me eh?
Who shall make the wax drip,
HOTT,
Dripping from chest to soul!!!

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